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Nummus - Diocletian QVIES AVGG, PLN, Londinium
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 307 |
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| Weight | 7.59 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Quies, draped, facing left in the field, holding a branch directed downward in the right hand and leaning upon a long sceptre with the left hand. The personification of Rest or Repose, Quies, embodies the emperor's voluntary retirement from power. The reverse legend QVIES AVGG is divided on either side of the figure, referencing the repose of the two senior Augusti. The mintmark PLN appears in the exergue, identifying the emission as the product of the Prima officina of the Londinium mint. |
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The QVIES AVGG reverse type — invoking the "rest" or retirement of the two Augusti — was struck to legitimize Diocletian and Maximian's return to public life during the crisis of 307, when Constantine and Maxentius were both pressing claims and the tetrarchic system was visibly fracturing. Diocletian had abdicated in 305; his reappearance at the Conference of Carnuntum in 308 would be his last political act before withdrawing permanently to his palace at Split.
The PLN mintmark places this firmly at Londinium's first officina during a politically charged moment for the British mint.